Thread: Slaughter a Cow

Given your screen name, I assume you perhaps come from India? As we know in Hindu religion, the cow is sacred and may not be killed, and yet you had a dream that it was going to be slaughtered in a religious ritual. I think this dream is about the breaking of a taboo, or it could be about upholding taboos and traditions - showing you the opposite to reaffirm that tradition holds firm in your mind. I don't know whether you are Hindu yourself, and whether you consider the cow sacred, but even if you are not, living in India or being from India this cultural image surely is a strong one? Of course this dream does not have to be about the tradition of sacred cow, but it could be about any tradition or even traditional role. I know in reference to your other dream you mention that you lost your job, and in both dreams your wife plays a crucial role. I wonder whether this dream is at least in part about the traditional role of husband as bread winner and provider for family, a role with which you now have a problem because of your job situation, and surely that must have you worried. In this dream, were you uncomfortable with your wife choosing to watch when you looked away and her perhaps speaking in defense of this ritual, opposing you, are you perhaps worried that your role in your household is being undermined by your loss of work, that perhaps your wife thinks less of you or respects you less because of it? If that is a worry, I suggest you talk with your wife about this worry.

Another possibility that I can think of is that this dream is about taking drastic measures. Perhaps you feel that the situation is desperate enough that you might be willing to do something that you would not have been willing to do before? Of course, in your dream you reaffirm that your values are strong, that times have not gotten so bad that you would forget what your values are, you remember not to be inhuman, and you are not thinking selfishly but thinking of this other being - you care about an other. And that is a good sign, a sign that things are not so bad that you would be willing to do something that you would regret in better times.

Originally Posted by PrashanthSagar

I and my wife was sitting in a shopping facing a road.

I don't understand this, what are you sitting in - a shopping cart?

yes.

Thanks for the detailed analysis. I am bit worried about job. thought im not in a financial crisis.

The shopping cart I think could be about the contrast of consumerism / material goods as opposed to spiritual values. Also because money is tighter (though not a crisis) you may be less able to put stuff into the shopping cart, but you and your wife being there together may be about how you have eachother and the value of that is more than money / stuff you buy. This dream could be a reminder that in times of financial need it is important to not sacrifice that which is precious such as tradition, spiritual values, marriage.

Also a shopping cart is a weird mode of transportation, it is not self propelling, needs someone to give it a push - so perhaps your dream is suggesting that you need someone to give you a push, someone to help. This is a slow means of transportation, and usually used by someone who is looking around searching for something - so this could be about your search (job search and/or spiritual search).

Originally Posted by PrashanthSagar

yes.

Thanks for answering. I was wondering because my line of thought is close to JoannaB's. The shopping cart and the slaughtering of the cow are as opposites. To make it as simple as possible, one could say that either you're at the shopping cart end, or at the cow's end. Right now you are in the shopping cart, which may symbolize you as a modern consumer who has lost touch with your primordial self. The slaughtering of the cow can be a symbol for man's closeness withe her primordial self; that is closeness to nature, spirituality, and rites to achieve balance with one self and one's surroundings. When the dream shows you the other side of our nature, it probably does so in a strife to balance your inner world. You may be to much up in your head, thinking about the mundane aspects of life, and forgetting about the other side of man. Since you are detached from it, you find it repulsing. But slaughtering of cows are not in itself a bad thing, looking at the history of man, and expressing our spiritual attitude by doing a ceremony out of it is neither. So I think this dream tries to create a balance by showing you this symbol, "the other", which we need. Dreams often strife for wholeness, it seems, and often compensates our attitude.

These are my thoughts and associations only, naturally it may very well have nothing to do with you, but I hope it helps a little bit along the way.

Maybe you wanted to BUY YOURSELVES NOW.☺

For another or confirming view:

If the sacred thing of you providing in your relationship, as was said, was being killed, which you resisted seeing...
Maybe your wife was seeing it as a sacrifice, so maybe a religious or spiritual test.
But you thought it was inhuman.